It's getting hard to keep track of all the newsworthy contributions from the Religion of Honor Killings. They seem to be pouring in at a rate of 2-3 a week. Pretty soon they'll run out of women altogether, and then no ones goats will be safe.

A Muslim teenager made a dramatic plea to be saved from her abusive parents a few months before she died in what police believe was an "honour killing".

Shafilea Ahmed was seen with injuries on her neck, an inquest heard yesterday.

The westernised 17-year-old, who wanted to become a solicitor, was frightened her parents would send her to Pakistan and force her into an arranged marriage.

After running away from home, she told a local council housing officer: "There were regular incidents since I was 15 - one parent would hold me while the other would hit me."

She said her parents, taxi-driver Iftikhar Ahmed, 48, and his wife Farzana, had prevented her going to school or her part-time call centre job.

Sigh. Maybe it's not Islam after all: maybe it's taxi drivers.

In September she enrolled to continue her A-levels at Priestley College, Warrington, and made contact with Miss Powner. But before they could meet, Shafilea disappeared.

Her family did not raise the alarm, but police were called by a teacher after the teenager missed classes.

Her parents put their home on the market the same day, telling a potential buyer they were moving because their daughter had brought 'shame' on the family.

Why haven't we nuked Pakistan yet?

Labels: Honor Killiing, Islam, United Kingdom

I've been following this story for a few days, watching the facts emerge. I didn't want to label it an honor killing on the first day, just because a Muslim family was involved. But sure enough, it looks like my worst suspicions are being confirmed.

Gail Gartrell, the sisters' great-aunt, said Saturday that Mr. Said had physically abused the two girls for years. Around Christmas, the girls' mother – Ms. Gartrell's niece – had fled because of Mr. Said's threats to kill the girls after he learned they had boyfriends, she said.

"She ran with them because she knew he would carry out the threat," Ms. Gartrell said. "This was an honor killing."

She said her niece returned after Mr. Said told her that he would move out so they could reconcile. Within a few days, she said, the girls were dead.

Two pretty teenage girls - Amina, 18, and Sarah Yaser Said, 17 - both smart and athletic, both very Westernized, were found murdered in their father's taxi. He's on the run. And their brother - conveniently named Islam - says it had nothing to do with religion. Uh huh.

Similar to our situation here in Toronto with the honor killing of Aqsa Parvez, the press in the US has remained pretty silent. There are no news bulletins on CNN or FOX. This means that the ugly bastard who did this is on the lam with very little chance of being recognized by a good citizen who could turn him in. That is, if he's not already safely out of the country and back in Crapistan, being lauded as a hero for defending the honor of his abominable religion. His name is Yaser Abdel Said, he is 50 years old, and his gruesome cab was discovered parked in front a hotel in Las Colinas, a suburb north of Dallas.

UPDATE:

Police described Yaser Said as about 6-2, 180 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a black turtleneck shirt and sweater, a brown coat and tan pants.

He may be armed, police said.

Anyone with information is asked to call Irving police at 972-721-2518.

Labels: Honor Killiing, Islam, Texas

There is a Canadian publication ban in place for the preliminary hearings for the man accused of murdering his daughter over her choice not to wear hijab.

I have no doubt that it will soon be broken. This case is too important for the politically correct moral cowards to force our heads back into the sand.

Labels: Aqsa Parvez, Honor Killiing, Islam

A girl chose not to wear hijab, so her father killed her. Discuss.

Thanks to Blue for bringing it to my attention.

Labels: Honor Killiing, Islam, Muslim Women

But at the very least, I am relieved that this was a love triangle, and not the honor killing I originally believed it to be.

God bless you and your baby, Sana. I'm sorry your husband was such a horny prick.

Labels: Honor Killiing, Murder, Sana Ali

A Jordanian court sentenced a man to six months in prison Monday for killing his pregnant sister - an "honor killing" the man said was necessary to uphold his family's reputation.

The court justified the lenient sentence, saying it was warranted due to the "state of fury" that led to the woman's slaying.

According to the court, when the woman told her brother she was five months pregnant with her former husband's child, he began chasing her and pulled on her scarf to strangle her. He then put a pillow on her head and sat on it until she suffocated.

The court said the woman's confession angered her brother and caused him to act in an irrational way. The court also said the woman's "shameful behavior" deviated from the traditions of Jordanian society and harmed her family's honor.

In Jordan, an average of 20 women are killed in "honor killings" by male relatives each year. Men have the final say in all family matters in the conservative Muslim society, where many consider sex out of wedlock an indelible stain on a family's reputation.

Some women in conservative circles of society have been killed simply for dating.

A fine society. Can't wait for them to take us over so we can all live like that.

Labels: Honor Killiing, Islam, Jordan

Graphic and heartbreaking, the Daily Mail has a story in their Femail section about honor killings in Iraq. Be warned - there are pictures of a girl who was stoned to death for dating a boy outside her denomination.

A teenage girl lies dead on the ground in a pool of her own blood.

Her once groomed hair is cast across her face like a rag doll's, her skirt pulled up to complete her humiliation.

In another image, she is seen lying on her side, her face battered and bloodied, barely recognisable.

The concrete block used to smash in her face lies next to her.

Du'a Khalil Aswad was beaten, kicked and stoned for 30 minutes at the hands of a lynch mob before one of her attackers launched a carefully aimed fatal blow.

America is trying to bring civilizaztion to savages, and we moan about the length of time it's taking. I suggest we make ourselves good and comfortable - this is going to take a while.

Labels: Honor Killiing, Iraq

The husband of a pregnant teenager found stabbed to death has been arrested on suspicion of her murder.

The 24-year-old husband of Sana Ali, 17, was arrested by murder squad detectives along with 16-year-old youth.

Mrs Ali and her unborn child both died following the attack at her home in Bury, Greater Manchester, on Friday.

Sana came to the UK five years ago as an arranged bride. She was married six months ago, and had to drop out of her college classes because she became pregnant.

This is not a life. She was a prisoner of her culture, forced to marry and breed when she was no more than a child. She was a prisoner of her marriage: neighbors said they didn't even know there was a young woman living in the house. And now she's dead, her and her baby, stabbed to death in her own "home".

Neighbours said they were shocked by the murder. "They are a quiet family, we rarely saw them," one resident said. "They are Muslim and sometimes they wear traditional dress, but other times they wear Westernised clothing.

"They recently had a large garage converted into a prayer room, and every couple of weeks quite a number of people came to pray. But I never saw a young girl at the house.

"A policeman told me he had interviewed 29 residents in the street and not one had seen a teenage girl or knew one that had recently got married."

She was invisible - her life meant nothing to the people around her, including the one (or ones) who killed her.

Try to spare Sana a thought tonight. Better late than never.

Labels: Arranged Marriage, England, Europe, Honor Killiing, Islam, Sana Ali